Salve



- r UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEO ELIZA P. LUCAS, OF STARKVILLE, MISSISSIPPI.

SALVE.

sPEcIr-IcArron forming part of Letters iatent No. 284,314, dated September 4, 1883.

Application filed April 5,1883. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ELIZA P. LUoAs,a citizen of the United States, residing in the town of Starkville,in the county of Oktibbeha and State of Mississippi, have invented a new and useful composition of matter or salve to be used for the relief of coughs, colds, rheumatism, neuralgia, sore eyes, mumps, diphtheria, raised breasts, Whoopingeough, measles, tumors, &c., of which the following is a-specifieation.i"j

My composition consists of the following ingredients, combined in the proportions statedviz.,water, one-half pint; hogs" lard, one and one-half pound; mutton suet, onehalf pound, saltpeter, oneounce; borax, one

ounce; alum, one ounce; oil of sassafras, onehalf gill; sal-soda, three ounces; turpentine, one gill. These ingredients are to be thoroughly mixed by boiling the water, lard, suet, 2o, saltpete'r, borax, alum, and oil of sassafras until the water has all evaporated. Set oft the fire, add the soda and turpentinefstr'ain off, put in boxes to harden.

In using this salve the parts affected should 2 5 be thoroughly rubbed.

I am not aware that all the ingredients of my salve have ever been used together.

What Iclaim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

The herein-described composition of matter, or salve, consisting of water, lard, suet, borax, alum,saltpeter, sal-soda, oil of Sassafras, and turpentine, in the proportions specified.

ELIZA P. LUCAS.

Witnesses: I JAMES LONGSTREET, MARY L. J ARNAGIN. 

